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R-II School District
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- Keep your
schedule
- Track
student progress on specific skills
- Conduct
authentic assessment
- Use a
calculator
- Make a
database of key content and concepts
- Take attendance
- Instantly
access student information, such as schedules, demographics, or parent
contacts
- Take notes
in a meeting or in a class
- Record
and tabulate grades
- Classroom
inventory
- Store
and access lesson plans
- Use a
rubric to assess and store student work
- Keep an
inventory of books and other instructional materials
- Keep a
list of all your important contacts
- Keep emergency
procedures and checklist readily accessible.
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- Compose
an e-mail
- Exchange
information with a colleague
- Share
a downloaded web page with someone
- Have student
turn in assignments electronically
- Transfer
a file from your PC for instant access
- Write
an ebook and share it with others
- Send and
receive an instant message
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- Take and
store digital photos for a project
- Make a
spreadsheet
- Draw a
picture
- Make a
concept map summarizing a chapter
- Form,
visualize, and solve equations
- Keep track
of class schedules, assignments, and grades
- Record
observations on a field trip
- Read an
ebook
- Graph
data
- Look up
a word in a dictionary
- Use flashcards
- Use a
tutorial for self-study
- Take note
and write a research paper
- Take notes
in class
- Listen
to historic speeches
- Take part
in a collaborative simulation
- Do research
on the web
- Gather
and analyze data on environmental issues
- Make a
timeline
- Create
an outline
- Study
for a test
- Keep a
journal
- Practice
multiplication tables
- Make a
photo album
- Listen
to and study classical music
- Access
the periodic table
- Manage
a collaborative project
- Track
a community service learning project
- Read about
the latest current events
- Build
vocabulary through word games
- Create
a database of endangered species
- Read historical primary source documents
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Checkbook
- Million Dollar Project: the students' objective is to spend $1 million in a project designed to make their town a better place. Some students create animal shelters; others design libraries. On the first day, a million dollar deposit is made into each student's checkbook application on their handheld. Over the course of the project, students use their handhelds to research prices, work with percentages, and develop charts and budgeting skills. This project idea was developed by Tony Vincent.
Contacts/Address Book
- The address book is a database. The field names can be edited to use for various data collection purposes, including words and definitions. Using this database students can sort, categorize, and filter.
ToDo List
- Flash
cards
Use ToDo list to generate electronic flash cards. Adding a question, word to be defined, etc. into the ToDo portion of the List is comparable to writing the same on one side of a note card. Each ToDo has the option of adding a note. The answer or definition, is added to this note. The details of the ToDo allow for categorizing the "questions" by subject, unit, etc. Prioritizing can be used to place the "questions" in a particular order. The due date allows annotation of the day that the particular material was covered. Students have the potential of having thousands of flash cards in the "Palm" of their hands. A student can see the entire question from the ToDo list and, when ready, can tap on the note to view the answer.
Sketchy
- Math:
Animate long division problems, algorithms
Using a computer program called Sketchy, which functions like a digital flip book, students create short cartoons that show each step they take to solve a math problem. They move the numbers around the screen as they solve a problem and add "thought bubbles" to explain their work. Students find the programs so engaging they watch their cartoons, and ones created by their classmates, repeatedly. The process of creating the product and reviewing it reinforces the thought process students should use to solve the problems.
- Science:
Animate the life cycle of a bean plant
Starting with a drawing of a seed on Frame 1, students can document the growth of their bean plants by adding additional frames complete with labels and dates.
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- The Handheld Computer as Field Guide
- Handheld Educator Newsletter by PalmOne
- Handheld.tie.net: Model Lessons
- Intel: Teaching With Handhelds
- Implemented Lesson Plans Using Handhelds
- Lane ESD Technology Rich Lesson Plans: for the subject choose "Handheld Computers" for subject
- Learning at Hand Lessons
- Lesson Ideas Using Handhelds
- Lesson Plans by Arkansas Tech University
- Palm Education Pioneer Grants' Idea Bank
- Palm Trees: Lesson Plans
- Planet 5th: Handheld Lesson Plans
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- Brighthand Forum for Handhelds in Education participate in a discussion list with other educators
- Changing Face of Instruction: Using Handheld Computers
- Education@PalmOne: Success stories, software, selecting the right handheld, educational purchase program, training
- Ed-U-Tech Explores PDAs
- Handheld Computers as Mind Tools: computer applications that require students to think in meaningful ways in order to represent what they know.
- Handheld Education: teacher uses, student uses, updates, software, and more.
- Handheld Educator
- Handheld Learning
- Handheld.tie.net:
comprehensive web site on the use of handhelds in Education
- K-12 Handhelds: applications, professional development, grants, and more
- Learning at Hand
- Learning by Handhelds by Intel
- Learning in Hand: one of the very best resources
- Learning in the Palm of Your Hand: The folks at Hi-CE (Center for Highly Interactive Computing in Education at the University of Michigan) are working hard to find new and better ways to effectively use handhelds in education. Use this site as a resource to obtain new freeware, join in discussions about handhelds, and view videos and articles.
- NW Handheld Project
- PalmOne Education
- pdaED.com: news, buying and how-to guides, discussion groups
- Power in the Palm of Your Hand is published by Kathy Schrock and features web sites, tutorials, and applications;
- SIER•TEC: Using Handheld Technologies in School: a pdf file of a 2002 newsletter
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- Handhelds in Omaha
- Handful of Handhelds Student Produced Video
- Integration Videos
- The Power of Handheld Computers in the Classroom
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- 101 Great Educational Uses for Your Handheld Computer
- Handhelds for Teachers and Administrators
- Handhelds in the Classroom
- Palm Handheld Computers—A Complete Resource for Classroom Teachers
- Palmtops:
Computing @ Every Student
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